SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — It’s Friday night in Downtown Santiago, the capital of Chile, and a group of 15 people gather around a ...

Well, I hope you survived Halloween and the leftover candy blood-sugar spikes. Now bring on the Christmas decorations.

But such misrepresentation of the North is unfair. Armagh – once a sectarian hot spot – is an ancient city, with deep pagan ...

Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints’ Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church’s ...

The Celtic pagan holiday called Samhain comes from when people would dress up and have bonfires to scare away gods who might try to trick them. Irish, Scottish, and English immigrants brought ...

But on Friday, Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints' Day, a somber and spiritual day in the church's liturgical calendar that shares pagan roots with ... an ancient ...

Halloween has been a global festival celebrated for centuries but many don’t realize that its roots lie in a pagan festival ...

From jack-o'-lanterns and cats to witches and vampires, Halloween has become synonymous with a set of spooky symbols, and ...

Supermarket shelves are buckling under the weight of pumpkins. Witch hats, cat ears and devil horns have been fetched down ...

Anthropologist and pagan Lyn Baylis tells the BBC: "Fire rituals to bring light into the darkness were vital to Samhain, which was the second most important fire festival in the Pagan Celtic world ...